Plow.



P. R. MOSHERQ PLOW.

APPLIUATION FILED JUNE 11, 1908.

938,686 Patented Nov. 2, 1909.

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FRANK REUBEN lVIOSI-IER, F EARLIER, CALIFORNIA.

PLOW.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented NOV. 2, 1909.

Application filed June 11, 1908. Serial No. 437,973.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK REUBEN MosHER, of Parlier, county of Fresno, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Plows, of which the following is a specification. j

My invention relates to plows, and its object is to permit a wide adjustment of the standard, together with the beam, and at any adjustment desired the beam can parallel the land. The wide adjustment secured by my invention is desirable especially in vineyard and orchard plows inasmuch as an adjustment can be secured whereby the plow can be run near the trunks of the vines and trees without danger of breaking the tender sprouts and twigs growing near the ground because of the proximity of the plow to such vines and trees. The fact that the beam is kept parallel to the land in the different adjustments of which the plow is 'capable makes the plow run easier and less liable to breakage.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction of the standard, and the device by which it is attached to the beam and to the plow frame, hereinafter more particularly lescribed.

Figure l is an isometrical view of the )low embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a 7iew of the standard. Fig. 3 is a view of he brace which acts as a rest for the heel of he standard and which can be substituted Eor brace T shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a rog to which the toe of the standard is fascned.

I is the plow beam which is adjustable in `.he rear by a device in ordinary use, viz: a upport, n, for the beam containing a slot in he line of an arc, c, in which bolt Q will lide laterally when loosened, and by which `he beam can be securely fastened by tightning the nut on the bolt g.

Frog G is a flat piece of metal having an ai' on one side which fits snugly against the andside, to which it is securely bolted near he front of the plow frame, and an ear on he other side bent in an irregular curve to it snugly against the lower end of the moldoard and adjacent portion of the plowhare, to which pieces said frog is securely olted.

.Brace T, otherwise shown as Fig. 8, is a at piece of met-al having an ear on one side vhich fits snugly against the landside, to

hich it is bolted back of frog Gr, said brace having on the other side an ear which fits against the moldboard and adjacent portion of the plowshare, as shown in Fig. 1, being bolted firmly to said moldboard and plowshare. Brace T has a row of holes, or a slot in the line of an arc of a circle having the pivot It for its center. Brace T and frog Gr are attached to the plow so that the tops form a horizontal plane.

The standard A 2.) consists of an upright and a foot, the top of the upright portion terminating with a platform which serves as a rest for the plow beam. Said platform has hole s at the front and Slot m at the rear. Slot m describes the arc of a circle having bolt hole s for its center. The standard A is fastened to the beam by bolt c passing through the hole s and the beam, and by bolt (l passing through slot m and the beam. The foot of standard A is fastened to the plow frame by a round bolt through hole /i in frog Gr (at the front of the plow frame) and through the toe of standard A, and by bolt f, passing through one of the series of holes /c (or slot lo) in brace T, and through a hole in the heel of standard A. When the nut on the bolt z, is loosened and bolt f removed, the upright of standard A can swing in the line of the holes 7c, and when the adjustment of the standard to or from the land is secured, the standard can be rigidly fastened to the plow frame by replacingbolt f and tightening the nuts on said bolt f and a bolt t. Some other form of hinge may be used to fasten the toe of standard A to frog G, but the device above described is deemed preferable in my construct-ion.

Vhen the adjustment of standard A is secured as described, nuts on bolts g, d and c can be loosened and the plow beam swung on bolt c as a pivot until said beam is parallel with the land, after which nuts d and c can be tightened and the handles of the plow adjusted by swinging them to the right or to the left, the standard where clasped by clamp r being the pivot, after which nut on bolt g can be tightened, thereby securing the handles rigidly to the plow.

I am aware that all the mechanism described in the foregoing is not wholly new.

What I do claim as new and as my invention, and upon which I desire to secure Letters Patent is:

In a plow, in combination with the plow frame, plow beam I, frog Gr, and brace T,

of standard A, consisting substantially of round bolt, and the heel thereof to brace T an upright bar of'metal terminating at the in one of a series of holes k, in the ,line of`10 top with a lzgtform forlming e rfst for th an arc, all substantially as described.

plow beam aving ho e s an s ot m an terminating at the bottom With a footcon- FRANK REUBEN MOSHER' taining holes at the toe and the heel where Witnesses:

bolts z, and f pass throu h, thetoe of said l E. F. KENNEDY,

foot being fastened to t ev frog G with a 1 J. W. KENNEDY. 

